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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 1304

Wagner Palace Car Company (NY), 1895, 100 shares, No. 3470, issued to and signed on the back by John Jacob Astor IV, who went down with the Titanic, passenger train, railroad stations in circular frames, IC,

Astor was an heir to the family fortune, a yachtsman, a real estate developer, and an officer during the Spanish-American War. After an iceberg was struck by the Titanic, Asor was heard to say "We are safer here than in that little lifeboat," an opinion that would cost him his life, as he went down with the ship.

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